About The Writers

Friday, March 13, 2015

Fighting The Good Fight

By Sarah Reichert

The
world is full of fighting.Countries
fight. Political parties fight.Neighbors and friends fight. Siblings and spouses, best friends or fellow
drivers, we even fight with our selves sometimes. No one is immune because the
human spirit survives by its ability to fight.We fight for respect, we fight against greed, we fight for our dreams
and hopes.We fight for our children and
for the future of the human race.Sometimes our
battles do more harm than good.Sometimes our battles change the course of history forever.

This
week marks the 50th anniversary of a poignant period in our nation’s
history.“Bloody Sunday” began with a
peaceful 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.People were asking for equality, but when
they reached the Edmund Pettus Bridge they got a fight instead. It’s hard to want to count our selves in the
same species when humans behave this way.

But the thing
about humans is that we are capable of amazingly beautiful things too.After the beatings, tear-gas, and murder, the
nation rose up against civil injustice, eventually passing The Voting Rights
Act of 1965. This fight is not yet over
in our nation and it will continue as long as inequality still exists.

As a writer, I
encourage you to fight with your words, but always fight the good fight.Benefit the world through your writing and
through your art.Promote peaceful
coexistence.Promote equality,
compassion, and justice. A writer’s mind is a powerful tool because words change minds and lives.I'm moved to tears every time I read Martin Luther King
Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech.

Fighting
is a part of our existence, but it doesn’t have to bring about negative
consequences. Whatever lofty religious
or cultural ideals we may have, the only true and tangible fact is that we are
all human, and all on this crazy roller coaster ride together. All we have is the now and the people who
share that ‘now’ with us. How we treat one another while we’re here is all that
really matters.

Dream
your dream and let go of the idea that we’re so different from one
another.We’re all stuck on this
spinning ball in the middle of space together.Let’s make the ride a sweet one.